Walter Speller pens a farewell to Giuseppe Rinaldi on JancisRobinson.com. “I found Rinaldi exhilarating and confusing in equal measure, and perhaps would have felt more at ease had I known that his nickname was ‘ il citrico’, the acerbic one.”

In Vinous, Neal Martin turns his attention to South Africa. “I reiterate my claim that no country, no wine region has been as dynamic, progressive or indeed, as exciting as South Africa. It is almost unrecognisable compared to a decade ago.”